{"id":521,"date":"2009-04-30T17:48:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T23:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=521"},"modified":"2009-04-30T17:48:33","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T23:48:33","slug":"impressive-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=521","title":{"rendered":"Impressive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, I read the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Autumn-Lightning-Education-American-Samurai\/dp\/1570621152\">Autumn Lightning: The Education of an American Samurai<\/a>. One of the scenes I remember from the book is a description of an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaido.org\/pages\/whatisiaido.html\"><em>iaido<\/em><\/a> exercise involving a simultaneous draw and strike that cuts through a falling dewdrop.<\/p>\n<p>I was a lot younger then (Amazon&#8217;s listing is for the 2001 printing; there&#8217;s an earlier one from 1985), and I had difficulty imagining that such things could actually be done, or verified in a training environment. I could see hitting a raindrop, but splitting it? I thought it more an ideal to reach for, in a &#8220;the journey <em>is<\/em> the destination&#8221; sense.<\/p>\n<p>Well, now I&#8217;ve seen something that removes any lingering doubt that I had. Some of what is done in this video can be verified just from the end results, but the use of a high-speed camera to provide super-slow motion shows how truly impressive a skilled practitioner can be.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/b_gcPGI-ZMI&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/b_gcPGI-ZMI&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, I read the book Autumn Lightning: The Education of an American Samurai. One of the scenes I remember from the book is a description of an iaido exercise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}